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A Mount Vernon man who admitted choking his benefactor to death in his apartment will spend at
least 15 years in prison.

Jedidiah H. Lang, 31, was convicted yesterday of murder in Knox County Common Pleas Court.
Judge Otho Eyster sentenced him to 15 years to life for his role in the death of Bradley Grosscup,
52.

Grosscup’s body was found in his burned-out Shirley Avenue apartment on Valentine’s Day.

Investigators said Grosscup let Lang and Lang’s girlfriend, Amber Pilotti, move in with him
because the couple was homeless. On Feb. 12, the three got to drinking and arguing in Grosscup’s
apartment, and Lang put Grosscup in a “sleeper hold,” Prosecutor John Thatcher said.

An autopsy found that Grosscup had been strangled.

Pilotti, 32, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for her part in the crime.
Detectives say she used hairspray and a lighter to set fire to a couch where Grosscup’s body lay.
She pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence, gross abuse of a corpse, aggravated arson and
complicity to commit felonious arson.

In exchange for Lang’s plea of guilty to murder, prosecutors dismissed felonious assault,
tampering with evidence, gross abuse of a corpse and aggravated arson charges.